Christina Birkenhake
Christina Birkenhake is a German mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. She is a lecturer at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, in the research group on algebra and geometry.After studying mathematics at the University of Münster beginning in 1982,
Birkenhake earned her doctorate in 1989 from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. Her dissertation was Heisenberg-Gruppen ampler Geradenbündel auf abelschen Varietäten , and her doctoral advisor was Herbert Lange.
She worked as a research assistant at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, earning her habilitation there in 1994, until in 2001 she was given a chair in complex analysis at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She returned to Erlangen–Nuremberg as a lecturer in 2003.Contributions
With Herbert Lange, Birkenhake is the author of the book Complex Abelian Varieties and of Complex Tori. She is also a presenter of public lectures on mathematics.
